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In this regular feature, Bulletproof interviews top plaintiffs' attorneys for their perspective on the crises likely to affect businesses in the near future. Today we talk to Michael Childress, a founding partner of Childress Duffy Goldblatt, a national plaintiff’s trial firm with offices in Chicago and Florida. Mr. Childress’ experience cuts across a wide range of plaintiff’s issues. He has thirty years experience representing corporate and private insureds in bad faith and first-party property damages ... READ MORE

In this regular feature, Bulletproof interviews top plaintiffs' attorneys for their perspective on the crises likely to affect businesses in the near future. Today we talk to Joel A. Kaplan of Kaplan and Freedman, P.A. in Miami, who, with Coral Springs, Fla. Attorney Scott N. Gelfand, has filed suit against Florida Power & Light Co. (FP&L) after a power outage during the second weekend in January ostensibly left 25,000 homeowners in Broward and Palm Beach ... READ MORE

In this regular feature, Bulletproof interviews top plaintiffs' attorneys for their perspective on the crises likely to affect businesses in the near future. Today we talk to Anthony Tarricone, President of the American Association for Justice (AAJ) and a partner in the Boston office of Kreindler & Kreindler, LLP. We asked Mr. Tarricone to address his organization’s legislative agenda, including last month’s action by Congress prohibiting defense contractors from mandating arbitration in their employment contracts. What larger ... READ MORE

In this regular feature, Bulletproof interviews top plaintiffs' attorneys for their perspective on the crises likely to affect businesses in the near future. Today we talk to Matthew Ferguson of Garfield & Hecht, P.C. in Aspen, Colorado. Mr. Ferguson has filed a lawsuit against Related Westpac Real Estate LLC and Base Village Owners LLC on behalf of six buyers of eight units at the Viceroy in Colorado’s Snowmass Village, a hotel condo project. Plaintiffs want their ... READ MORE

We’ve seen this movie before. First it was pet food tainted with melamine; then, it was lead paint in toys; then defective tires; then melamine emerged for a repeat performance – in both toothpaste and baby formula. Now, the latest import scare from China is drywall built into more than 100,000 homes nationwide between 2004 and 2007. As we enter 2010, this sequel is rapidly expanding into what experts predict will be a $15 billion to ... READ MORE

In this regular feature, Bulletproof interviews top plaintiffs' attorneys for their perspective on the crises likely to affect businesses in the near future. Today we talk to Eugene K. Hollander of The Law Offices of Eugene K. Hollander in Chicago. Last week Mr. Hollander filed suit against the Dr. Pepper Snapple Group on behalf of seven African-American warehouse employees, alleging verbal abuse, intimidation, and systematic discrimination by Hispanic co-workers and supervisors. The time element seems to be ... READ MORE

In this regular feature, Bulletproof interviews top plaintiffs' attorneys for their perspective on the crises likely to affect businesses in the near future. Today we talk to a businessman, C. William Jones, who heads the Association of BellTel Retirees Inc., (www.belltelretirees.org) a retiree activist organization. The group is spearheading a class action against Verizon charging that, in November 2006, 3,000 fully vested company retirees were involuntarily switched to pension plans sponsored by an under-nourished spin-off ... READ MORE

As the UN-sponsored climate talks in Copenhagen began their first official day, Lisa Jackson, the Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), was in Washington, D.C. starting the week with a bang. She announced an “endangerment finding” that greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare and that emissions of such gases could now be regulated by the EPA under the federal Clean Air Act. According to administration officials, the endangerment finding will serve as the foundation ... READ MORE

In this regular feature, Bulletproof interviews top plaintiffs' attorneys for their perspective on the crises likely to affect businesses in the near future. Today we talk to Adam Klein, a partner at New York’s Outten & Golden LLP, one of the nation’s premier labor/employment plaintiffs’ firms. Mr. Klein focuses his practice on the prosecution of class action statutory-discrimination and wage/hour cases.  Are there specific new labor/employment areas where you are now focusing significantly more attention? Adam Klein: I ... READ MORE

In this regular feature, Bulletproof interviews top plaintiffs' attorneys for their perspective on the crises likely to affect businesses in the near future. Today we talk to Thomas R. Ajamie, managing partner of Houston, Texas-based Ajamie LLP, a global litigation firm equally distinguished on the defense and plaintiffs’ sides of major cases. As plaintiffs’ counsel, the firm has, in the last four to five years, won a dozen multi-million dollar judgments and settlements on behalf ... READ MORE